Burning Down the Wall: Questions Commonly Asked by Astro 101 Instructors During CAE Workshops

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #247.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Center for Astronomy Education (CAE), as part of JPL's NASA Exoplanet Public Engagement Program (ExEP), has been conducting Teaching Excellence Workshops all across the country since 2004. Nearly two thousand current and future astronomy instructors have participated in these workshops. During these highly interactive professional development experiences, participants are given the opportunity to ask anonymous questions to the workshop leaders by writing a question down on a sticky note and placing it on a sheet of paper identified as "The Wall of Burning Questions.” These "Burning Questions” are read aloud and answered by workshop leaders throughout the course of the workshop. Here we present an overview of common themes of questions workshop participants ask, as well as an analysis of the depth of pedagogical content knowledge these questions represent. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0715517, a CCLI Phase III Grant for the Collaboration of Astronomy Teaching Scholars (CATS). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. In addition, we would like to thank Michael Greene and JPL's NASA Exoplanet Public Engagement Program (ExEP) for their continued support.

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